• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
          61·
          2 years ago

          The instance is called lemmygrad.ml and already blocked by most of the other instances. You can see blocked instances if you scroll down the page and click on the Instances button.

          Their 196 is called moretankie196.

            • potatisgris@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 years ago

              A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don’t really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.

              • knaak@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 years ago

                Thanks. I guess that I am grateful that I don’t know about either of those things.

            • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              196 is the subreddit that this community is based on. The only official rules are that you must post before you leave and you can’t be a bigot. It ends up basically like r/shitposting, except aggressively pro-LGBTQ instead of anti.

              A tankie is a leftist who thinks that Mao, Stalin, and Castro were cool.

        • moss@lemmy.worldM
          21·
          2 years ago

          The community is called moretankie196 and I’m not sure what the server is exactly called

    • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Tankies ≠ leftists ≠ liberals

      Plenty of leftists want human rights and even know we’ll need a revolution to get them, but the USSR and CCP were not ever communist, they were authoritarian oligarchies disguised as communism. The same way the US is not a democracy or a republic, it’s an authoritarian oligarchy disguised as one.

      • RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        The USSR wasn’t perfect (and Stalin ruined most things that were good obviously) but they weren’t any worse than the USA or the west.

  • iie@lemmy.ml
    65·
    2 years ago

    The dismissal of tankies really bothers me.

    Remember Iraq’s WMDs? Remember how the intelligence reports were actually based on a Nicholas Cage movie called The Rock? Remember how this goofy story was nevertheless widely reported and believed, and America still invaded Iraq, and 2.4 million Iraqis still died? Remember how 4 in 10 Americans still think America found WMDs in Iraq to this day?

    the Iraq WMDs story inundated western media. It was everywhere. And everyone believed it. And millions died as a result. Tankies and other leftists disagree mainly on what is western distortion and what is true. That is an important question to think about, not one to be dismissed out of hand. America does lie about its enemies, and it does have enormous resources for selling those lies to the public. And people die when those lies are believed.

    • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, tankies are not the only people who realize George Bush lied about WMDs lmao. Basically all leftists know that. However, most other leftists don’t make excuses for people like Stalin, Mao, and Castro. We can advance our cause without supporting mass murderers. Fuck tankies